[7] Glaumarr: Or Glaumvarr (so Tˣ, A, B and adopted in Skj B and Skald). Neither variant occurs elsewhere, although Glaumr lit. ‘noise’ (or ‘enjoyment, joy’) is the name of a giant (cf. Eil Þdr 20/1 niðjar Glaums ‘descendants of Glaumr <giant> [GIANTS]’). If the correct form is Glaumvarr, the name may mean ‘joy-cautious one’ (-varr (adj.) ‘aware, cautious, scared’).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 20’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 119.